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[geebee]

hi,

i have some code that goes to a website... i noticed that when you hit "TAB"
within that website you cannot put the focus on the desired link. so i need
to see if there is a way to move focus to the window within the IE window
using VBA ...

thanks in advance,
geebee

 

[AndyM]

If you want to set the focus to a specific link, this code should do the
trick. The findText variable will contain the link text you want to set
focus to.

'loop through all links within the document
For Each objLink In ie.Document.Links
'get the inner text of the link
linkText = objLink.innertext
If UCase(Trim(linkText)) = UCase(findText) Then
'found match, set focus
objLink.Focus
Exit For
End If
Next objLink

If you want to actually click the link, just change .Focus to .Click, but
then you'll want some to add some code to wait for IE to finish loading.

Post back if you have additional questions. I have used Excel VBA to
automate the testing of several Web applications. In most cases, it works
very well.

 

[geebee]

hi,

its not working for me because i dont think it is an <a href ...> link per
se. It is more like:

<tr onclick="goTo('/Reports/ReportList.asp', '')">
<td width="26"><img src="/Shared/Images/Icons/smallIcon_View.gif"></td>
<td nowrap class="MenuItem">View Reports</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>

not sure what to do about this... would it be better to list the files
stored in the url? if so how can that be done?

thanks in advance,
geebee

 

[AndyM]

Is this an external site that we have access to? If so, can you post the link?

If you click on the image (smallIcon_View.gif), will it navigate to the
desired link? If so, here is code to click on the image. For this code
you'll either need error handling or On Error Resume Next, since not every
html object has a src property. I use InStr to compare the image src
property against the value you are looking for (findSrc). This way you only
have to enter the image file name.. not the entire path.

'loop through all objects within the document
For Each htmlObj In ie.Document.All
'get the inner text of the link
imgSrc = UCase(Trim(htmlObj.src))
If InStr(1, imgSrc, UCase(findSrc)) <> 0 Then
'found match, set focus
objLink.Focus
Exit For
End If
Next htmlObj


If this doesn't work, it looks like you may be able to click on the "View
Reports" text since that appears to be a menu link. In this case, you would
just search through the html objects looking for an object that has an
innerText property value of "View Reports".

 

[geebee]

hi,
i think i may go a different route...
i have code which clicks on a link.. .the only problem is sometimes the
exact link address is not known. for example, the following link works fine:

https://secure.secure.com/Transacti...r_20080923200402123_ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf

i did some testing and it looks lke the first part of the
"5005_46_16_AppServiceUser_20080923200402123_ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf"
(meaning the "5005_46_16_AppServiceUser_200809" and the
"ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf" part stay the same. But sometimes the
"23200402123" part is not known. is there anyway we can do a loop through
the different possibilities or somehting so that we can arrive at the
"23200402123" part? this wil lbe very useful when the exact filename is not
known.


thanks in advance,
geebee

 

[AndyM]

Will the "ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf" part uniquely identify the link? If so,
just do a partial match using the InStr function.

Dim lookFor As String

lookFor = "ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf"

If InStr(1, aLink, lookFor) <> 0 Then
'found it
End If

 

[geebee]

hi,

i decided to go a different route yesterday because it does not appear that
the links are actually <a href...> links. so will the code you suggested
still work? if not, i have code which clicks on a link.. .the only problem
is sometimes the
exact link address is not known. for example, the following link works fine:


https://secure.secure.com/Transacti...r_20080923200402123_ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf

i did some testing and it looks lke the first part of the
"5005_46_16_AppServiceUser_20080923200402123_ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf"
(meaning the "5005_46_16_AppServiceUser_200809" and the
"ZZ-2DRLSD-20CH-20SENT.pdf" part stay the same. But sometimes the
"23200402123" part is not known. is there anyway we can do a loop through
the different possibilities or somehting so that we can arrive at the
"23200402123" part? this wil lbe very useful when the exact filename is not
known.

i looked at the source code for the page...(which made me think that the
links are not <a href...> links) but i could be wrong:
<ReportList>

<Report Created="7/27/2008 00:46" UTC="-128616112044438057"
File="1101_46_16_AppServiceUser_20080727004644600.txt" Name="Submission"
Size="2" User="AppServiceUser" Type="Submission" Format="TXT" Filter=""
Allow="1" Delete="false" Download="false" IsNew="true" />